The Earliest Wheeled Transport: From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea
- ISBN-10
- 0500012792
- ISBN-13
- 9780500012796
- Category
- Bronze age
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983-01-01
- Publisher
- London : Thames & Hudson
- Author
- Stuart Piggott
Description
Elegantly written and beautifully produced, this tellsyou everything you need to know about wheeled vehicles in Europe, from their origins in the Neolithic period to the heyday of the Celts, Stuart Piggott one of Europe's best-known ...
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